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Economic Nationalism

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Economic Nationalism

China Is Scaling Back Its Failed Semiconductor Industrial Policies. America Should Do the Same.

The warning signs are flashing "don't be like China."

Eric Boehm | 1.10.2023 11:05 AM

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Free Trade

Big Dairy Wants Congress To Restore Huge Tariffs on Imported Baby Formula

Unless Congress takes action, those tariffs will return on January 1. And the baby formula shortage hasn't yet passed.

Eric Boehm | 12.19.2022 4:25 PM

The shadow of former President Donald Trump looms over the Republican Party. The midterm elections showed that Republicans now have a choice to make.

Election 2022

Maybe Republicans Need a Policy Agenda After All?

The GOP has hit the dead end of Trump-style personality-cult populism. It's time to try having ideas.

Eric Boehm | 11.11.2022 3:30 PM

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Politics

The Will to Power Was Front and Center at NatCon III

What differentiates national conservatives from some other right-wing varietals is the desire to use government to destroy their enemies.

Stephanie Slade | 9.19.2022 11:20 AM

ZeroSum

Immigration

"Great Replacement Theory" and the Perils of Zero-Sum World Views

The racist Buffalo mass murderer's ideology drew on dangerous ideas common on both the ethnonationalist right and the far left.

Ilya Somin |The Volokh Conspiracy | 5.17.2022 5:58 PM

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Mass Shootings

Repulsive Replacement Theory and Economic Delusions

Plus: The editors each point out one key disagreement they have with one another.

Matt Welch, Katherine Mangu-Ward, Peter Suderman, and Nick Gillespie | 5.16.2022 5:32 PM

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Election 2022

J.D. Vance Takes Victory in Ohio GOP Senate Primary

The former venture capitalist will face Rep. Tim Ryan, the Democratic nominee, in November's general election.

Joe Lancaster | 5.4.2022 8:15 AM

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Free Trade

Economic Penalties for Putin's Aggression Threaten To Impoverish the World

Countries insulating themselves against future sanctions may block trade that lifted billions from misery.

J.D. Tuccille | 3.18.2022 7:00 AM

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Free Trade

The Senate's Industrial Policy Bill Is a Debt-Financed Corporate Giveaway That Lobbyists Love

The U.S. Innovation and Competition Act is a lobbyist-crafted proposal that funnels emergency spending to politically connected special interests.

Eric Boehm | 6.8.2021 10:20 AM

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Media Criticism

Liberal Media Coverage Is Boosting Conservative Nationalists

Plus: Supreme Court to rule on Catholic foster agencies, tech associations sue over social media law in Florida, and more…

Elizabeth Nolan Brown | 6.1.2021 9:38 AM

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Free Trade

America's Semiconductor Industry Doesn't Need $52 Billion in New Subsidies To Stay Ahead of China

Industrial policy is the wrong answer to a problem that mostly doesn't exist.

Eric Boehm | 5.27.2021 11:40 AM

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Conservatism

Nationalist Conservatives Are Abandoning the Ideas of Liberty

We should prefer drag queens in libraries over despots in the government.

Steven Greenhut | 5.14.2021 8:00 AM

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Biden Administration

The U.S. Won't Beat China by Being More Like China

Biden's argument about a strategic competition with China ignores America's advantages.

Eric Boehm | 4.30.2021 5:00 PM

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Economic Nationalism

COVID-19 Industrial Policy Fails Again

A Connecticut company got a $138 million government contract in order to break America's supposed "dependence" on foreign-made syringes. It has yet to produce even a single one.

Eric Boehm | 4.22.2021 1:50 PM

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Economic Nationalism

Foxconn Finally Admits It Won't Create 13,000 Jobs in Wisconsin

It now plans to employ just 1,454 people after bulldozing dozens of homes to make room for a factory Donald Trump once touted as the "eighth wonder of the world."

Eric Boehm | 4.21.2021 4:00 PM

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Coronavirus

Industrial Policy Failed With Vaccines Too

Global supply chains beat government-directed manufacturing once again.

Eric Boehm | 4.7.2021 2:10 PM

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Free Trade

Africa Tries Free Trade

Liberal ideas are beginning to gain traction on the world's poorest continent.

Alexander C.R. Hammond | 3.30.2021 6:00 AM

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Economic Nationalism

Conservative Economic Nationalism Is Not as Popular as People Think

Even supporters of Donald Trump think foreign trade and free markets are good for America.

Stephanie Slade | 3.29.2021 10:00 AM

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Josh Hawley

Josh Hawley's Toxic Populism

Is the senator's authoritarian grandstanding the dark future of the GOP?

Peter Suderman | 3.6.2021 6:00 AM

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Free Trade

Josh Hawley's Latest Plan To Hike Tariffs Would Be a Win for China

Shutting down the GSP program would reduce economic growth in developing countries and raise taxes on American importers.

Eric Boehm | 12.16.2020 11:40 AM

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Economic Nationalism

Peter Navarro's No-Good Economic Nationalism 

Navarro is the missing link between the democratic socialists on the left and the economic nationalists on the right.

Eric Boehm | 11.8.2020 6:00 AM

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Free Trade

The Republican Convention's Defense of Trump's Trade War Fell Flat

A Wisconsin business owner who spoke about losing business to China ended up inadvertently undermining the administration's argument for protectionism.

Eric Boehm | 8.28.2020 2:55 PM

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Free Trade

Red-Pilled? Actually Most U.S. Drug Ingredients Are Made Here, Not in China

The Trump administration is spending big money to make sure America's drug supply chains aren't dependent on China. But that's not really necessary.

Eric Boehm | 8.18.2020 2:40 PM

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Economic Nationalism

The Trump Administration's $765 Million Kodak Deal Is More Proof That 'Economic Nationalism' Is a Scam

The Trump administration's "economic nationalist" agenda is little more than a cronyist attempt at propping up domestic companies with taxpayer cash.

Eric Boehm | 8.5.2020 5:05 PM

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Free Trade

The Panic About China Cutting Off America's COVID-19 Drug Supply Was Fake News

The Food and Drug Administration now says there is no evidence that any country attempted to cut off America's essential pharmaceuticals.

Eric Boehm | 6.3.2020 3:10 PM

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Reason Roundup

Trump's Executive Order on Twitter Is a Total Mess

Plus: the weird new battle lines on warrantless surveillance, more CDC incompetence, Minneapolis on fire, and more…

Elizabeth Nolan Brown | 5.28.2020 10:41 AM

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Free Trade

The Trump Administration Wants To Subsidize Domestic Drug Manufacturing. The First Contract Looks Like a $350 Million Grift.

A member of the five-month-old company's board has been touting bogus stats about America's supposed dependency on Chinese-made drugs.

Eric Boehm | 5.22.2020 1:30 PM

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Coronavirus

Why You Shouldn't Trust Anyone Who Claims 80 Percent of America's Drugs Come From China

A misleading statistic has made the rounds. But it’s based on a misreading of a government report that says no such thing.

Eric Boehm | 4.6.2020 10:45 AM

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Populism

The Decade Populism Went Mainstream

Roughly five times as many people live under populist governments now compared to 10 years ago.

Matt Welch | 12.11.2019 11:04 AM

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Internet

Do We Need a World Data Organization?

Democratic presidential hopeful Andrew Yang thinks so.

Ronald Bailey | 11.22.2019 1:45 PM

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Economic Nationalism

Elizabeth Warren's 'Economic Patriotism' Doubles Down on Bad Policy

Maybe Trump and Warren should team up for their 2020 run to make room on the ballot for better ideas.

J.D. Tuccille | 8.29.2019 3:30 PM

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Free Trade

As Trade War Escalates, Trump Has Impotently 'Ordered' American Businesses Out of China

Trump's economic nationalism has always been an exercise in petty authoritarianism, and it's increasingly difficult to see it as anything else.

Eric Boehm | 8.23.2019 4:20 PM

Congratulations, America!

Economic Nationalism

Conservative Nationalists, Not Immigrants, Are Having Trouble Assimilating in America

Their orgy of statism is un-American.

Shikha Dalmia | 7.26.2019 10:30 AM

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Nationalism

The New Conservative Nationalism Is About Subverting Individual Liberty

If big government is the price of "good outcomes," the American right is increasingly willing to pay it.

Stephanie Slade | 7.18.2019 9:45 AM

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Free Trade

Are Free Trade's Best Days Behind Us?

Simon Lester | 7.11.2019 6:00 AM

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4th of July

Trump's Militarized Fourth of July Parade Makes America Less Great

We're getting a military parade because Donald Trump wants one. The arguments for leaving our tanks at their bases are far more numerous, significant, and powerful.

Eric Boehm | 7.4.2019 6:46 AM

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Freedom

Rising Conservatives Are as Hostile to Freedom as the Leftists They Disdain

Republicans, who have gleefully warned the public about Democratic flirtations with socialism, shouldn't be quick to gloat given the emergence of an anti-freedom movement on the Right.

Steven Greenhut | 6.14.2019 8:00 AM

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Donald Trump

'Trade Wars' Don't Put Americans First

You cannot advocate trade restrictions without also advocating state-bestowed privilege.

Sheldon Richman | 3.11.2018 8:00 AM

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Globalization

Libertarian Globalism Versus Economic Nationalism

What Donald Trump and his posse of economic nationalists get wrong.

Ronald Bailey | 10.5.2017 9:30 AM

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